Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1887-11-19
"REvENGEi RRvENGBi
"woRKMRN. TO ARMS,

Men OF labor, this afternoon tie Jhlo6dfbNhas
OF your oppressors murdered six 0f your brolli,
, ers AT McCormieks. Why did they murder
them? Because they dared to be dissatisfied
with the lot which your oppressors have as
signed to them. They demanded bread and
they gave them lead for an answer mindful OF
the fact that thus people are most effectively
silenced You have for many, many years en-
dured every humiliation without protest; have
drudged from early in the morning till late at
hlEh!; have suffered oil sorts Of privations have
even sacrificed y6ur children, You have done
every thine'to fll the Golfers Of your iiiasters-
every thint for ,hem; and now, when you APP
proach them aad implore them TO make your
burden a little lighter as reward for your sac.
riiices they send their bloodhounds-the police
-at you In order 10 cure you, with bullets OF
your dissatisfaction. Slaves we ask and coniure
YOU, by all that is sacred and dear 10 you,
a"enge the atrocious murder Which has been
committed on your brothers to-day. and Which
VIII likely be committed upon you tomorrow.
Laboring men, Hercules, you have arrived at
the croSsway. Which way will you decide? For
slavery and hunger or for freedom and breadf
If you decide for the latter then do not delay a
moment; then, people, to arms, This must be
your motto Think OF the heroes whose blood
has fertilized the road to progress liberty and
humanity, and strive and become worthy Of
them. Your BROTHERS"
Neebe and other notables of the /. A. A. took
horses, and in person scattered the circular
broadcast. not failing to leave copies with the
rank and file of the International armed sec
tons" gathering in Gref's Hail. 81 West Lake
street That the circular gave the impulse to
the action Of the armed sections at this Monday
night meeting, and inspired the adoption OF the
npmb throwing nprpoJ ig
from the fact that its contents were first fully
discussed. Then the complete detailed plan of
the particular method of inaugurating the
wholesale murder for which they originally or
ganzed was formally considered and adopted,
the time for the slaughter being left for the Ar
better IeHaRg to designate by publishing the
signal word ruhe (peace)
This latter feature was the work Of Adolph
Fischer, who had come to the meeting straight
from the Arbf.fer ZeitHHg, where he had been
assisting Spies and Schwab. That Fischer was
carrying out the plans of his supcriors appears
more clearly from the circumstances that it
was he who maneuvered the armed sections
out Of their idea of holding the Haymarket
meeting in the morning instead Of at night, as
Spies and the other leaders had decided.
a darker picture is not to be found in history
than this spectacle of four.score murderous con
morsclessly plotting the massacre that occurred
not hundred yards distant, before another
midnight passed. Rudolph Schnaubet, the
throwcr of the Haymarket bomb was among
the eighty or more assassins who composed this
horrible meeting. Though adjournment did not
come Till long after H. 1t was not o'clock next
morning Tuesday, when Louis Lingg, mem
her OF this identical armed section" opened
the chest of dynamite that had lain untouched
in his lodgings since four days before. Under
his expert directions, six of the men who at
tended the murder meeting OF the previous
night ckly set to work then and there filling
glObular shells with dynamite.
Early as was the hour, Fischer was also at
work getting out the hand-bills calling the
last words were; "Woriingmen, arm your
selves and appear in full force!' What Spies,
SchTab and the other leaders were doing that
day may be partly inferred from the burn
ing appeals for resistance and calls TO
per organs that evening. ''Ruhc," penncd
by Spies own hand stared out of the ArbsRtr
ZsifUH1. After the papers were of and their
editors had swallowed a hasty supper, it be.
came known that Spies, Parsons, Schwab
Fielden, Fischer and other ruling spirits, mostly
members of the sclf-Same armed sections
that held the Grcirs Hall concave, went into
close session at the International headquarters
in the irbeiter ZtituHq building, where reports
by messengers and telephone were received as
the moments sped.